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[dreamer_easy]

Have posted a few links over at seeingred about the attacks on Indian overseas students here in Australia, which have included a petrol bomb and a stabbing that has left a student in critical condition. (I'd love to think the violence was just a Melbourne thing, but I'm very worried it's affecting more than one group of visible OS students and more than one city.) Anywho, for me, the most hopeful was The Age's report that the Victorian A-G is pushing for hate crime laws, which would increase sentences for crimes motivated by homophobia, sexism, and religious prejudice, as well as racism.

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[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Well, they do have the same goal. In fact, you'll have noticed that NOW have described the murder of Dr Tiller as "domestic terrorism", which is exactly what it is: you only need to target part of any group to keep that whole group afraid. It's what lynching was about, too, and what Brownmiller called rape.